Durban Sandshark Posted December 19, 2024 Report Posted December 19, 2024 Doesn't look like I will be returning to write a typical very longform post with info from various places in time before Christmas as I hope due to my workload leading up to it; very little free time for me available prior to Christmas Day. Today is my last off day prior to that, so I'll try to make this count. But I will very much go back to it in between Christmas and early New Year. Remember, I still have no computer/tablet/smartphone of my own yet but aim for all that in 2025. Still got lots of nations to get covered however belatedly. That said, there's plenty of Paris 2024 media developments right now. This will be good enough. Arcom, France's television regulation authority, reveals this week that 71% of the French public watched at least some portion of their hometown Paris 2024 Summer Olympics with 59% of them watched the Paralympics on multiple platforms and rights broadcasters. Consumption was high all over, breaking French TV records like with the OC (most watched in French TV history), viewership on all three France TV channels as well as on the digital side, often made hybrid. Equally important, these Summer Olympics also significantly captured the desired under-25 demographic in France. Report on the first link: https://www.arcom.fr/nos-ressources/etudes-et-donnees/mediatheque/bilan-de-la-diffusion-audiovisuelle-et-numerique-des-jeux-olympiques-et-paralympiques-de-paris-2024 https://rmcsport.bfmtv.com/jeux-olympiques/jo-2024-les-chiffres-hallucinants-des-audiences-tv-et-du-suivi-des-francais_AV-202412190388.html https://www.sport.fr/athletisme/71-des-francais-ont-regarde-les-jo-2024-1265340.shtm Despite the massive 71% overall viewership and raking in monster national advertising revenues for France Televisions' Paris 2024 Summer Olympics coverage, its board of directors approved the 2025 budget for the public media group that's expected to be in the red, to the tune of 41.2 million euros, for the first time in 9 years. A law approved in November by the National Assembly - in the same terms as in the Senate - had perpetuated the mechanism installed provisionally since 2022 to help finance public broadcasting (France Télévisions, Radio France, France Médias Monde, INA, TV5 Monde and Arte), namely the collection of an amount from public finances to compensate for the elimination of the license fee as it adjusts to new pivoting in striving to maintain its editorial missions intact: https://www.lefigaro.fr/medias/france-televisions-presente-un-budget-en-deficit-pour-la-premiere-fois-depuis-neuf-ans-20241218 https://www.lesechos.fr/tech-medias/medias/france-televisions-prevoit-un-deficit-pour-2025-une-premiere-en-neuf-ans-2138572 Earlier this month, NBCU wins five IOC Golden Rings Awards for its Paris 2024 presentation. It wins Gold for Best Digital Offer (Web and App) for NBCOlympics.com and Peacock, Best Director for Paris Titans, and Best Social Media Campaign. Peacock Earns Best Innovation Silver for AI-Powered “Your Daily Olympic Recap” recreating Al Michaels' voice. NBCU Wins Bronze for Best Remote Studio and Presentation: https://www.nbcsports.com/pressbox/press-releases/nbcuniversal-wins-five-prestigious-ioc-olympic-golden-rings-awards-for-presentation-of-olympic-games-paris-2024#:~:text=THIS SUNDAY%2C DEC.-,NBCUNIVERSAL WINS FIVE PRESTIGIOUS IOC OLYMPIC GOLDEN RINGS AWARDS,OF OLYMPIC GAMES PARIS 2024&text=STAMFORD%2C Conn.,the Olympic Games Paris 2024. Full list of IOC Golden Rings Olympic Awards winners can be seen here. 12 different broadcasters were awarded: https://olympics.com/ioc/news/olympic-golden-rings-awards-celebrate-excellence-in-paris-2024-broadcast-coverage France Televisions won five of these Golden Rings Awards as the host nation broadcaster including Best Athlete Profile Gold for Les Paris de Leon on swimmer Leon Marchand, silver for both L’album des Jeux Olympiques: Pour tout l’Or du Monde, its Olympic Torch Relay live broadcast presentation, and Aux Jeux, Citoyens!. Also won a Special Recognition Jury Award. SuperSport viewers across Sub-Saharan Africa, not just in South Africa but particularly the latter, were left "tearing their hair out" when the channel cut to lengthy commercials for at least three days with the swimming competition in Paris, missing out on the finals overall results of their South African and other African swimmers' progress like Pieter Coetze. Even missing out on their entry walking out for the following event to the pool: https://www.thesouthafrican.com/sport/paris-olympics-2024/supersport-continue-to-frustrate-with-annoying-ads-during-paris-olympics-2024-breaking-exclusive/ Just a couple of days ago on Tuesday, BBC 4 aired a Paris 2024 2-part documentary review show at 10pm entitled The Heart Of The Games that brother film-makers Jules and Gédéon Naudet were appointed to make. BBC1 earlier that night aired the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards live from Salford at 7pm GMT, co-hosted by BBC Sport Olympic personalities Gabby Logan, Clare Balding and Alex Scott. For the record, Swedish pole vault star and World and Olympic record holder Armand "Mondo" Duplantis won BBC Sport World Sports Personality of the Year and British 800m gold medalist runner Keely Hodgkinson won BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Both are also on BBC iPlayer: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/dec/17/tv-tonight-relive-the-thrilling-drama-of-the-paris-2024-olympics https://www.tomsguide.com/entertainment/streaming/watch-bbc-sports-personality-of-the-year-2024-online-on-tv-anywhere Across to Ireland with RTE's own Sports Awards. Paul O'Donovan won RTE Sport Sportperson of the Year for winning his third consecutive rowing medal in Paris, a second consecutive gold starting from Tokyo, also making history in being the first Irish Olympian to win medals in three consecutive Summer Olympics. Also Michael Carruth, the Irish welterweight who won Ireland's first boxing gold in Barcelona 1992 with support from a Cuban coach, was inducted in the RTE Sport Hall of Fame: https://www.thesun.ie/sport/14369366/rte-sportsperson-paul-odonovan-willie-mullins/ Globo won four Golden Rings trophies for its Brazilian Paris 2024 broadcasting coverage. It was awarded two golds in these categories: Best Content to Promote Gender Equality and Inclusion for its sixth Historias Olimpicos episode and Best Promotional Video; and silver in the categories Best Olympic Program for Central Olimpica with Tadeu Schmidt, Fernanda Grey, and Peti Gato and Best Remote Studio for Estudio Olimpico: https://ge.globo.com/olimpiadas/noticia/2024/12/03/globo-ganha-quatro-trofeus-em-premiacao-do-coi-pela-cobertura-de-paris-2024.ghtml Nine Network Entertainment's Mike Sneesby revealed in August it paid A$77.3 million for its multiplatform Paris 2024 coverage as part of a A$305 million multiyear Olympic broadcasting deal expiring after Brisbane 2032--and Sneesby insists to business analysts it'll make a "material profit" form this despite a prolonged downturn in the advertising market: https://www.afr.com/companies/media-and-marketing/nine-reveals-how-much-it-paid-to-air-paris-olympics-20240827-p5k5td An average of 158,000 Swiss viewers watched the entire 230-hour live program for the Swiss-German language Olympic Games in Paris on SRF2--245,000 viewers on average saw the entire SRF daily 14-hour broadcast--taking a market share of 38.8%. This corresponds to a market share of 31.9 percent and a record for the Summer Olympics. With over 24 million visits to the sports content and at least 14.3 million live stream starts, SRF has achieved the highest number of users of its online offering of all Olympic Games to date. The men's 100m final that the USA's Noah Lyles won attracted the most viewers at a 624,000 viewership peak. The beach volleyball quarter-final between the Swiss Esmée Böbner and Zoé Vergé-Dépré and the Australian duo Mariafe Artacho/Taliqua Clancy (rating 536,000), the opening ceremony (rating 442,000), and the evening sessions in track and field for August 6-7 2024 also achieved high viewing figures. The medal battles in the men's long jump with Simon Ehammer and the women's pole vault with Angelica Moser attracted 489,000 and 486,000 people respectively. Sets Olympic online offering records with its nine livestreams achieving a record of 14.3 million starts--with August 4 being the biggest day with 1.9 million--for all three SRG members--SRF, RTS, and RSI: https://www.srgd.ch/de/aktuelles/news/2024/08/13/olympia-berichterstattung-sorgt-fur-beste-quoten-bei-srf/ Quote
Cyriln Posted December 30, 2024 Report Posted December 30, 2024 Here are the 20 most-watched TV programs in France in 2024. 8 of these programs are about Paris 2024: the 4 ceremonies (the Olympic ceremonies are #1 and #2, the Paralympic ones are #7 and #20), 3 sports events (women's basketball at #8 and two finals of Léon Marchand at #10 and #15) and the news aired the day after the opening ceremony (#19). However, the most watched sports event is France's semi-final at Euro 2024 (France's 6 matches are in the top 20) Spoiler Also, the yearly audience share of France 2, the main Olympic and Paralympic broadcaster, is up 0.4% compared with last year, reaching its highest share since 2010. Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted December 30, 2024 Report Posted December 30, 2024 Finland's Olympians came to Paris with some hopes of attaining medals this past summer. But Finland left Paris empty handed for its athletes for the first time ever, and there will be changes afterward from this disappointment. Despite this, regarding Finnish national broadcaster YLE: Quote The Paris Summer Olympics, which ended on Sunday, reached a total of over 4.3 million Finns on Yle's channels. A total of 266 hours of TV broadcasts were produced from the Games, 747 hours of broadcasts on Yle Areena and 133 hours on Yle Radio Suomen Olympiaradio. In addition, content was published on Yle's website and in the Yle app. Olympic content was watched on Yle's online services on over five million different browsers. The videos were played over 37 million times. Over 60,000 Finns took part in the Olympic Nut Game. Joose Palonen, Head of Yle Sports and Chief Producer of the Paris Games, says that bringing the Olympic Games to Finns is at the core of Yle's public service mission. – The world's largest event attracted huge audiences both here and around the world. We reached over two million Finns on television on the tenth day of the competition, and in addition, we reached new records on Yle Areena and online. A total of 23 broadcasts reached over a million viewers on Yle TV2. The highest average viewership of 1.3 million was the athletics broadcast on the evening of August 8, which culminated in the men's javelin final. Palonen says that the Olympics have offered Finns inspiring experiences and shared experiences. – The Paris Olympics were a fantastic event, which many described as the best games ever in terms of atmosphere and setting. Thanks to Yle's Olympic team, which succeeded in serving the audience excellently. The next Olympic Games are two years away, the 2026 Winter Olympics, which will be held in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Yle has the broadcasting rights to the Olympic Games for the years 2026–2032. The agreement with the International Olympic Committee covers all media rights, and as a result, ice hockey, aquatics and basketball from the Olympic Games will return to Yle's channels from 2026 onwards. https://yle.fi/a/74-20104494 And this was how YLE managed to produce and harness its massive Paris 2024 project on its multiple channels and platforms without basketball and the swimming events that TV5/Eurosport Finland had (but got those on YLE Radio). As you would expect, the Finns were granted great priority as well as the major Olympic developments, highlights, and sports of the day and be international about it and going behind-the-scenes. Both in Paris and the Helsinki suburb Pasila with a special working relationship and togetherness, bringing the passion: https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-10006913 Telemundo Deportes brought a cutting edge state-of-the-art virtual studio using Unreal Engine 5.3 and other technology for Paris, while still actually based in Miami, considering that prime real estate for a Paris studio was a luxury while still showcasing the iconic Paris landmarks in providing exceptional coverage. We could see this groundbreaking move become more commonplace for non-big budgeted Olympic rights holders in future years: https://www.nbcuniversal.com/article/inside-telemundo-deportes-cutting-edge-virtual-studio-paris-2024-olympics Didn't take long for SKY NZ, or any broadcaster for that matter, to make a mistake once the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics began. SKY NZ's Tim Evans interviewed the wrong swimmer following the men's 100 freestyle heat on day four with initially and actually talking to Israel's Tomer Frankel going through the race and mis-ID'ing him with the Cameron Gray graphic before throwing to the real New Zealander Cameron Gray moments later after SKY, back in Auckland with studio host Laura McGoldrick, realized the mistaken identity. Neither swimmer from that very heat, in case you're wondering, advanced to the semifinal. Forgiven with 12 channels and 32 Olympic sports to cover. We'll return to SKY NZ early next year: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/olympics/olympics-2024-mistaken-identity-sky-tv-interview-wrong-athlete/2SDECGIEABA4FKM7IHBIPEK2UE/ Belgium's Flemish community really turned out for VRT/Sporza's 730-hour Paris 2024 coverage on VRT 1/Een/CANVAS with 1,750,000 people, practically a fourth of the Flemish population, watching on TV every day, overall 4,223,000, with an average of 463,000 digital viewers on Sporza's and VRT MAX's 4 livestreams as it followed every Belgian Olympian in Paris. Radio 1/MNM/Radio 2/VRT NWS also got huge listener numbers. Highlights for viewership include the semi-final of the Belgian Cats basketball versus France had slightly more viewers at peak time than the final of Remco Evenepoel's golden road race. Quote But viewers also quickly found their way to our online channels and live streams, especially when Belgians were in action. An average of 463,000 people watched the 4 live streams via Sporza (294,000) and VRT MAX (169,000) every day. In total, 6.32 million hours were watched digitally. The peak day for the live streams was 9 August with 749,000 unique viewers. With the semi-final of the Belgian Cats, the bronze for Sarah Chaäri in taekwondo, the lost match for bronze by the Red Panthers in hockey and the double medal in the heptathlon, there was a lot to experience for the Belgians that day. The absolute peak in peak moment was during the final of the men's road race: 143,000 people watched Remco win gold via live stream. The top 5 peak moments are completed by the women's road race (111,000), the Belgian Cats versus France (107,000), the Belgian Cats versus Spain (95,000) and the men's time trial (87,000). On the digital side with the Sporza app and website... Quote Remco Evenepoel's golden road race was viewed the most with 2.95 million, and also the most this year. Other articles that had more than 1 million views during the Olympic Games: the heptathlon (the first day had 1.86 million views and the second had 2.07 million), the women's road race (1.53 million), Matthias Casse in judo (1.3 million) and the men's time trial (1.21 million). Also displayed some innovations with its multifunctional studio set with extra effort on commentary and VRT1/Een offering subtitles for its 245-hour coverage: https://www.vrt.be/nl/over-ons/nieuws-over-vrt/parijs-2024-de-vlaming-supporterde-massaal-mee-op-alle-kanalen-van-vrt ZDF's and ARD's traditionally and usually shared German Olympic TV coverage this time with Paris 2024 was a major success. 7.78 million viewers watched the closing ceremony on Sunday, August 11, 2024 on ZDF as the most watched Paris 2024 event. The market share for the three-hour broadcast was 40.5 percent. Overall, ZDF's live broadcasts of the 2024 Summer Olympics were watched by an average of 3.37 million viewers, with a market share of 30.1 percent. In total, ARD and ZDF reached 53.4 million viewers with their television broadcasts. ZDF alone reached 52 percent of all potential viewers with its Olympic coverage on German television. The diverse Olympic offerings on the digital platforms were also a great success. Out of ZDF's 122 hours of the Paris 2024 TV broadcasting portion, Quote competitions in athletics, swimming, handball, basketball, and women's football in particular achieved viewing figures of over six million. The top three most successful "Sportstudio Live" broadcasts from the Olympics were table tennis on August 5, 2024 with 7.56 million viewers, with a market share of 31.5 percent, a summary of the modern pentathlon with 7.43 million viewers, with a market share of 34.9 percent, and the women's basketball 3x3 final between Germany and Spain with 7.40 million viewers, with a market share of 35.0 percent. ZDFmediathek saw an increase in Summer Olympic viewership for Paris 2024, up an average 62% from Tokyo 2020. Event livestreams would have a total of 77.79 million views with a usage time of 22.19 million hours. That's an increase in views of 190 percent compared to Tokyo 2021. The most successful event livestream is the 2nd day of competition on July 28, 2024 with 2.05 million views, followed by the 4th day of competition on July 30, 2024 with 1.84 million views. The 14th day of competition on August 9, 2024 ranks in third place with 1.79 million views. ZDF News and Sports saw an online increase of 109% from Tokyo 2020. We'll get to ARD and Eurosport Germany and more ZDF in the new year: https://presseportal.zdf.de/pressemitteilung/bilanz This will be it from me for 2024. But certainly more, as will some developments on Milan-Cortina, will come in the new year... Quote
Cyriln Posted January 1, 2025 Report Posted January 1, 2025 The official film of Paris 2024 will be aired tonight on France 2 and is already available on france.tv https://www.france.tv/documentaires/documentaires-sport/au-coeur-des-jeux/6775120-emission-du-mercredi-1-janvier-2025.html It is the 1 hour and 49 minutes version of the 4-episode series that has been published just before and just after the Games, but it still has some exclusive footage. The series version is already available on DVD and Blu-ray https://www.amazon.fr/CŒUR-Jeux-Blu-Ray-Tony-Estanguet/dp/B0DJFV7S54 1 Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted February 27, 2025 Report Posted February 27, 2025 Just wanna somethings in here for the month of February as it winds down, not just for this new year. Plan to get more into this next month. So I can re-acclimate myself here. The EBU awarded France Televisions the EBU Excellence in Media Award for their "innovative and high-tech coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics" at September's IBC exhibition and conference in Amsterdam. France TV and its partners provided "combined cutting-edge technologies, such as the ST 2110 standard for IP-based production workflows to revolutionized its capabilities, allowing for high-quality, scalable, and flexible operations", usage of multicameras, "also embraced advanced cloud-based production techniques, AI-powered workflows, and 5G networks, enabling them to broadcast from multiple locations with enhanced efficiency and sustainability" in delivering this multisport event "in UHD 4K resolution, and with Next Generation Audio, giving its audiences an immersive and crystal-clear viewing experience.": https://tech.ebu.ch/news/2024/09/ebu-presents-excellence-in-media-award-to-france-televisions-for-paris-olympics-coverage One tactic France Televisions used during their Paris 2024 summer for presenting coverage was using an electric cargo bike fleet equipped with 5G technology "to beat congestion allowing mobile video news teams to move around Paris": https://www.tvbeurope.com/live-production/pedalling-in-paris-france-televisions-cargo-bikes-deliver-olympic-coverage Armand Duplantis was hyped when he broke his own pole vaulting world and Olympic record. 80,000 people watching at the Stade De France were hyped on that Monday when that happened. And so were people watching back in Sweden on Kanal 5 and Eurosport Sverige/HBO Max, setting the Paris 2024 Swedish peak viewing record at 2,453,000 million of him winning gold (for the former), living up to expectations. Duplantis' moment tops the other Swedish Paris 2024 Olympic moments of Sarah Sjostrom swimming to gold at the women's 50m free (1,732,000) and Truls Möregårdh's silver (1,624,000): https://press.warnerbrosdiscovery.se/post/magisk-mondo-mandag-historiskt-tittarrekord-pa-kanal-5 531,000 peak Norwegian TV viewers watched the eventual gold medalists Norwegian women's handball team's Paris 2024 debut match on TVNorge in their bitter loss to Sweden with a viewership share of 67%. Helped no small part with a favorable TV time start for Norwegians, compared to having 231,000 viewers in their Tokyo 2020 opening match. Matter of fact, the Norwegian women's handball team dominated the Norwegian Paris 2024 Olympic TVNorge coverage viewership. Get to that next time: https://presse.warnerbrosdiscovery.no/post/over-500-000-sa-handballjentenes-apningskamp-i-ol ORF's Oliver Polzer reported live from the Stade De France at the Closing Ceremony at 8:55pm CET as Olympia Live--The Closing Ceremony to close out ORF's Austrian Paris 2024 coverage but not before another Olympia Studio at 8:15pm on ORF1 and ORF ON: https://tv.orf.at/stories/240811_olympia_schlussfeier100.html Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted March 28, 2025 Report Posted March 28, 2025 Aussies took to social media to express their fury and ire at the Nine Network over its live Opening Ceremony presentation that got shown late night--and at Today co-host Karl Stefanovic for talking too much. Or no subtitles for lengthy speeches. Do they not understand Australia was intentionally placed near last, third last to be exact, in the boat parade of nations along the Seine was planned that way as 2032 hosts before France? Can't control the rain either. At least it wasn't a downpour. While championing Bruce McAvaney at ABC Radio: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-13677503/Aussies-slam-Channel-Nine-coverage-Paris-Olympics-opening-ceremony-Karl-Stefanovic-2024.html TV Globo's Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony live broadcast began right after Jornal Hoje and hosted by narrator Luís Roberto and will feature former gymnast Daiane dos Santos, surfer Italo Ferreira, and famed sports commentator Galvão Bueno. SporTV 2, the OC broadcast started at 1 pm Brazil time, hosted by Milton Leite, live from the French capital, with former volleyball player Fabi Alvim, former swimmer Cesar Cielo, and journalist Marcelo Lins. And there was more! On the Brazilian delegation's boat, presenter Marcelo Barreto followed the behind-the-scenes coverage up close: https://gshow.globo.com/cultura-pop/famosos/noticia/olimpiadas-de-paris-2024-onde-assistir-ao-vivo-a-cerimonia-de-abertura.ghtml More than half of New Zealand's population--"a total of 2,819,200 people – 57% of New Zealand’s population – watched SKY's extensive coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games throughout New Zealand, including free-to-air on Sky Open with 14 hours per day, at an average of 1.4 million viewers per day on 12 channels on 135 live hours daily. SKY got major engagement volumes during the Games in terms of streaming viewership and posting on the social media side. Athletics/track and field, rowing, swimming, canoe sprinting, artistic gymnastics, and golf led the way as the top rating sports during the Olympics, while events that Kiwi athletes found success in proved to be, not surprisingly, the most watched across Sky’s coverage. These NZ heavily-watched events included Hayden Wilde’s silver medal in the men’s triathlon, Lydia Ko’s gold medal-winning final round in the women’s golf, the women’s pole vault qualifiers which saw three New Zealanders progress to the final, and rowing and canoe sprint finals that resulted in medals for Lisa Carrington, Alicia Hoskin, Emma Twigg, Lucy Spoors, and Brooke Francis. Also... Quote Sky’s digital platforms, Sky Sport Now and Sky Go, also experienced significant volumes of activity during the Games as more than 350,000 unique viewers flocked to both platforms to stream Sky’s Olympics coverage almost 21 million times, averaging 1.3 million daily streams. Additionally, Sky’s social channels achieved strong engagement across YouTube, X, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram throughout the Games. More than 1200 posts – at an average of over 42 daily posts – showcasing medal-winning performances, exclusive interviews and other highlights of the Games led to 44.8 million impressions, 32.7 million video views, 2.9 million engagements, and an audience growth of 35,000. We'll return to SKY NZ and its Paris 2024 coverage later on: https://www.sky.co.nz/-/sky-s-olympics-coverage-reaches-audience-of-over-2.8-mil Jose Ramon Fernandez is another sports broadcasting legend we should know with his style and rigor that are his trademarks. After participating and hosting 13 consecutive Summer Olympics on Mexican television on Imevision, TV Azteca, and ESPN Mexico from the host cities dating back to Montreal in 1976, Fernandez announced on air with Odin Ciani on July 30 that Paris 2024 would serve as his final Summer Olympics. He leaves a huge hole there and an "outstanding" body of work just for the Olympic Games: https://us.marca.com/tiramillas/television/2024/07/31/66a9a651e2704e7cac8b459e.html To many Hong Kong viewers watching on TVB, Alex Fong was a pleasant surprise for them "showcasing" his professionalism and journalistic skills on location in Paris as host like when exclusively interviewing Hong Kong gold medal-winning fencer Vivian Kong and also advocating swimmers' rights. With its team of Fong, Priscilla Wong, Elson Ho, Edith Chong, and Chan Ming-tai reporting on the Olympic Games in Paris highlighting its diversity and versatility, TVB garnered major praise for its successful and engaging comprehensive coverage. HKGers even raved TVB's diving coverage in comparison to CCTV's: https://www.dimsumdaily.hk/tvbs-alex-fong-showcases-professionalism-in-exclusive-paris-olympics-coverage/#google_vignette Hong Kong's ViuTV's Paris 2024 promo with its broadcasting team including Grace Liu, the bronze medalist in women's individual karate at the Tokyo Olympics and ViuTV's Paris Olympic Ambassador, Keyman Ma Qiren, Chen Weiru, Zhang Jiayin, Qiu Yuqin and also a large number of former Hong Kong athletes in the professional commentary side like Liu Guojian, Yung Jinhua, Lo Shanlin, Ma Yongru, Chan Kin Lok, Luk Chun Yin, Chan Yiu Hoi, Cheung Chui Ling, Heung Pak Rong, and Cheng Lisha, all sporting grey ViuTV's Paris 2024 T-shirts, all announcing their committment to cover Paris 2024 interspersed with footage of Hong Kong Olympians like swimmer Siobhan Haughey, fencer Edgar Cheung Ka Leung, Lau, HKG's women's table tennis team, and cyclist Lee Wai Sze: RTP's Antena 1 on the radio side in Portugal presented its presentation of Paris 2024 prioritizing the Portuguese athletes participation and competition of the Portuguese, all the news, records and victories in Paris. On the day of the Opening Ceremony, the special broadcast started at 7:00 pm and features the presence of former athletes at the games: race walker Susana Feitor, canoeist Vitor Félix, swimmer Victoria Kaminskaya, sailor João Rodrigues, judge João Oliveira, who will be in Paris as a judge in the trampoline events, and also Pedro Dias, the Secretary of State for Sport. Over the last few days, “Mesa para Dois--Especial Olimpiadas” has been receiving, in glory, great Portuguese Olympic medalists winners. Cyclist Sérgio Paulinho was the latest interviewee on "Mesa para Dois – Especial Olimpíadas", which precedes the opening ceremony of the games in Paris. Antena 1's coverage also includes two special correspondents for the games, João Gomes Dias and Eduardo Gonçalves – they are with the Portuguese team in the competition and can be on the air at any time. Daily at 17:30 and 20:30, all information is updated in the Olympic Diary: https://antena1.rtp.pt/antena1/a-cobertura-da-antena-1-dos-jogos-olimpicos-2024/ Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted April 3, 2025 Report Posted April 3, 2025 Nominations came in last week for the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards from Toronto, and the CBC garnered nominations for its massive production of its Paris 2024 Summer Olympics coverage this past summer. Categories involved are-- -Best Pre-School Program or Series--for CBC Kids Celebrates The Olympic Games -Best Sports Program Or Series -Best Production Design or Art Direction, Non-Fiction -Best Original Music, Factual, Lifestyle, Reality, or Entertainment -Best Sports Feature Segment--for Olympic Reflections With Donovan Bennett -Best Sports Opening--for The Gold Within Featuring Randell Adjei and Phylicia George -Best Live Sports Event, Technical Production -2 noms in Best Sports Host for Andi Petrillo (CBC Toyota Olympic Primetime) and Anastacia Bucsis (CBC RBC Olympic Morning) -2 noms in Best Sports Play-by-Play Announcer for Alexandre Despaite (diving/street skateboarding) and Mark Lee (track and field) -Best Sports Analyst for Craig McMorris (skateboarding) Should be anticipated that the CBC will win several of these Canadian Screen Awards if not all of them. Can't predict what categories outside of Best Sports Program or Series as an American, although Andi Petrillo could win again in Best Sports Host. However, she and Bucsis could cancel each other out this time. Maybe Best Production Design Or Art Direction, Non-Fiction. There were no noms for this coverage at the digital side. Winners will be announced on Friday, May 30 at the CBC Broadcast Centre AT 11:30AM Canada/USA/Mexico CT in Toronto, which starts with The News, Entertainment, and Sports Awards, presented by CTV News, Crave, and TSN: https://www.academy.ca/nominees/ https://www.academy.ca/2025-canadian-screen-awards-schedule/ No news on this year's Sports Emmys south of the border, except the nominations there will be announced in May. NBC Sports will surely attain plenty of noms as expected for its massive multiplatform Paris 2024 coverage. 1 Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted April 16, 2025 Report Posted April 16, 2025 46th Sports Emmys got announced with NBC's Games of the XXXIII Olympiad Paris 2024 coverage garnering 30 nominations. Definitely expect it will win a good chunk of them come May 20 -Live Special – Championship Event -Hosted Edited Series (for Peacock's Olympic Highlights with Kevin Hart & Kenan Thompson) -Short Documentary (for In the Company of Heroes) -Journalism (for Richard Engel Report's Fighting for Olympic Gold: Ukraine’s Athletes at War) -Short Feature (for Caeleb & The Critic) -Open/Tease (2 for Land of Stories and Meet Team USA x Beyoncé) -Interactive Experience -Personality/Studio Host (Mike Tirico) -Personality/Play-by-Play (2 for Mike Tirico and Noah Eagle) -Technical Team Event -Technical Team Studio -Camera Work – Short Form (for Caeleb & The Critic) -Editing – Short Form (for Land of Stories) -The Dick Schaap Writing Award – Short Form (2 for Land of Stories and Closing Essay) -Writing – Long Form (for In the Company of Heroes) -Audio/Sound – Live Event -Graphic Design – Event/Show (got 2 but for specific networks) -Studio or Production Design/Art Direction -The George Wensel Technical Achievement Award -Studio Show in Spanish -Feature Story in Spanish (3 for “El Niño”, Hermanos Limardo: Lazos de Acero, and Momentos Que Marcan) -On-Air Personality in Spanish (3 for Andres Cantor, Rolando Cantu, and Miguel Gurwitz) https://theemmys.tv/sports-46th-nominations-gallery/ Nine Network Australia "achieved a national total television reach of 19.5 million across Channel 9, 9Gem and 9Now for its coverage of the 2024 Olympics Games in Paris. Week 1 of Nine’s broadcast of the Olympic Games delivered a National Total Television reach of 17.5 million (the highest weekly reach in VOZ history), while Week 2 delivered a National Total Television reach of 16.6 million (the second highest weekly reach in VOZ history)." BVOD service 9Now also saw strong results - the platform achieved a 16% incremental reach, with 2.7 million viewers tuning in exclusively to the Olympics through 9Now out of an overall National Reach of 7.5 million. Stan, the broadcaster's streaming service, also reached very strong results in its highest viewing day since the launch of Stan Sport. This exceeded the previous pre-Olympics record by more than 60%, which also saw during the opening week in Paris in "outperforming the previous record by more than 300%: https://www.adnews.com.au/news/nine-reaches-19-5-million-with-olympics-coverage Nine Network and News Corp. were also both major winners in the 2024 Australian Sports Commission Media Awards for their Australian Paris 2024 coverage at the Sydney Cricket Grounds in February: https://www.sportzhub.com/article/paris-2024-coverage-and-trailblazing-journalists-shine-at-2024-asc-media-awards.html Dan Shulman waited for so long to see the Canadian men qualify for Olympic basketball for the first time in 24 years so he can call their games for the CBC in its Paris 2024 coverage and further add to his brilliant resume. He finally got that chance in doing both Team Canada's men's and women's Olympic basketball games despite the disappointing ends for both with no medals to show for it. Did call the Tokyo 2020 Olympic basketball for the CBC from home and not on location. Even placed a contract clause with ESPN to answer the call for Canada. Actually is no stranger to the Olympics with his Lillehammer 1994 hockey assignment: https://www.thestar.com/sports/olympics-and-paralympics/canada-basketball-the-olympics-broadcaster-dan-shulman-has-been-waiting-for-this-moment-forever/article_4a987b12-495f-11ef-b57f-6fbe8e769940.html Nigeria's Sporty TV had to suffer the ignominy of enduring Nigerian Paris 2024 Summer Olympic athletes walk away from the City of Light and Love empty handed in its debut Olympic presentation to Nigerians back home. That was a huge subject back home. Nevertheless, here's Sporty TV's promo for the live Paris 2024 opening ceremony at 7pm Nigeria time. Also on TV5 MONDE (DTH ONLY) and Sporty TV DTT 258, DTH 190: https://www.tiktok.com/@sportytv/video/7395976774175165702 https://x.com/StarTimes_Ng/status/1815763807446225017 The Colombian National Consulting Center (CNC) shared audience figures for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Colombia and highlighted that 65.93% of the country's households watched the games. Caracol Channel, RCN Channel, and Claro Sports broadcast the competitions, and according to the information provided, together they reached a total of 1,724,712 Colombian households with Caracol TV outperforming and dwarfing RCN and maintained a solid audience throughout despite dipping. Its biggest audience recorded in its highest rating of 3.82 during the women's soccer match between Colombia and France on July 25, positioning itself as the preferred channel for viewers on that day of the games. Not to mention the majority of its viewers being women with sports interest catering to them. RCN's coverage came in the tens of thousands and fluncuated, getting the Central and Pacific regions, dipping from its best day on July 31 to its lowest on the next day August 1. Caracol TV captured the Coffee and Central Regions. Claro Sports' 4 channels reached a total of 163,637 Colombian homes, representing 6.2% of the games' global reach with he highest-rated day was August 10, 2024, with a remarkable 0.85 (22,352 households), while July 25 recorded the lowest rating: https://www.produ.com/television/noticias/informe-de-audiencias-de-cnc-revelo-que-el-6593-de-los-hogares-en-colombia-vieron-los-juegos-olimpicos-paris-2024/ Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted April 28, 2025 Report Posted April 28, 2025 More awards forthcoming regarding the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics broadcasting coverage. This time the IOC's OBS and the IOC/Paris 2024 Olympic Organizing Committee reaping awards on the digital side from the IADAS' Webby Awards. Winning 2 Webbys with Best App for Visual Design/Fucntion and People's Voice Winner App of the year. In the video/film categories, the IOC’s original series "Breaking Life: Road to Paris 2024", a 4-part series following eight breakdancers--–B-boys Victor, Jeffro, Gravity and Shigekix, and B-girls Ayane, Nicka, Anti and Stefani – as they pursue qualification for the sport’s Olympic debut in Paris, was named People’s Voice Winner in Sports (series & channels) that was produced by the Olympic Channel. NBC Sports (Olympic coverage), BBC Creative (promotional campaign), and NBC Peacock (streaming service/interactive campaign) were all also recognized for its digital efforts. Even NBC Universal's Access Hollywood was honored for its Access Couch Correspondent TikTok social media filtering/lenses for Paris 2024! https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1153037/2025-webby-awards-paris-2024-initiatives https://sportsin.biz/iocs-digital-bet-on-paris-2024-triumphs-at-prestigious-webby-awards-2025/ https://winners.webbyawards.com/2025/apps-software/app-features/best-visual-design-function/339703/olympic-games-paris-2024-official-app https://winners.webbyawards.com/2025/social/features/best-use-of-filterslenses/324262/access-couch-correspondent-paris-2024-olympics The CBC got 12 nominations for its Paris 2024 Olympic Games coverage and presentation at the Canadian Screen Awards. Nine Network Australia's social media-friendly Paris 2024 promo that arrived at the 50-day mark towards the Paris 2024's official start... Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted May 22, 2025 Report Posted May 22, 2025 OK, the 2025 Sports Emmys took place on Tuesday, May 20. And NBC/Peacock won big winning 10 Sports Emmys for its Games of the XXXIII Olympiad including Outstanding Live Special Championship Event, two for Steven Spielberg for producing and writing the “Land of Stories” opening, Outstanding Short Feature for Caeleb & The Critic: Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, Outstanding Interactive Experience, Outstanding Technical Team Event, Outstanding Technical Team Studio, Outstanding Audio/Sound – Live Event, Outstanding Graphic Design – Event/Show, Outstanding Editing – Short Form, and Outstanding On-Air Personality in Spanish for Telemundo's Miguel Gurwitz, who was involved in the NBCU's Paris 2024 coverage as the 11th. A major reason why NBCU won a record 13 Sports Emmys. No shock NBCU won in the tech realm: https://www.olympics.com/ioc/news/nbcuniversal-s-coverage-of-paris-2024-tops-sports-emmys https://www.nbcsports.com/pressbox/press-releases/nbcuniversals-paris-olympics-coverage-tops-sports-emmys-with-10-wins-as-nbcu-ties-company-record-with-13-awards https://www.sportsvideo.org/2025/05/21/46th-annual-emmy-awards-paris-2024-games-dominates-with-10-awards-nbc-and-espn-top-all-networks-with-13-emmys-apiece/ https://theemmys.tv/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/46th-Annual-Sports-Emmy-Awards_winners_2025-5-20-1.pdf https://deadline.com/2025/05/2025-sports-emmys-winners-list-1236406860/ If you were a Swedish Olympic fan on August 2 last year, Kanal 5, Eurosport, and HBO Max had you covered: it was excitingly chock-a-block with Swedish Paris 2024 Summer Olympians in what was Sweden Super Friday starting at 2pm Sweden time with the Swedish men's handball team facing Croatia with Henrik von Eckermann, Rolf-Göran Bengtsson and Peder Fredricson simultaneously defending their Swedish Olympic gold medal from Tokyo, and when the final of the team jumping is decided in the Château de Versailles. Half an hour later, at 2:30 p.m., Truls Möregårdh will play the men's table tennis semifinal against Brazilian Hugo Calderano--but that was relegated to HBO Max and Eurosport but played live and interrupted in its entirety: https://www.expressen.se/sport/os-2024/beskedet-i-kanal-5-truls-moregardh-ratas-igen/ Nearly 5 million Austrians have watched at least some portion of ORF's Paris 2024 Summer Olympics coverage. The widest viewership possible there. Track and field proved, not shockingly, to be the biggest hit with the men's 100-meter final on August 4, which was watched by an average of 737,000 sports fans (31% market share), as the public broadcaster announced on the following Monday. The men's 400-meter final on August 7 took second place with an average of 735,000 viewers, followed by the men's discus final featuring Austria's Lukas Weisshaidinger – also on August 7 – with 722,000 TV viewers On the online/streaming realm overall, the live streams and videos-on-demand of ORF's entire Olympic TV coverage up to and including August 11 achieved 3.5 million net views (consecutive usage events) and 13.4 million gross views (video starts) across Austria, which is significantly higher than at the last Summer Games (Tokyo 2021). With 117 million minutes of total usage, a new record was achieved compared to all Summer and Winter Olympic Games since the introduction of AGTT measurement. The most-watched ORF live streams from Paris 2024 were the final of the men's 400-meter race on August 7 with an average reach of 27,600, followed by the men's discus final with 27,100 DRW and the semifinal of the women's 400-meter race with 26,200 DRW (both also on August 7): https://kurier.at/kultur/medien/olympische-spiele-orf-quoten-top-hit-100-meter-finale/402935437 TV2 Denmark recruited 200-260 people for it portion of the Danish Paris 2024 TV/online/streaming coverage with "approximately 50 in Paris". TV 2 revised its strategy wholesale and showed a wider range of Summer Olympic sports live with, for example, TV2 Play having up to 15 streams to help cover it. Meanwhile, DR, also committed to heavy Paris 2024 coverage, sent 20 journalists with many other personnel back home. Anders Kern Boje, deputy director of DR News with responsibility for DR Sport, says that along with the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic sports action, "In our Olympic coverage, we walk on two legs. We focus on the Danes, the big stories, and the shared excitement when Danish athletes do well. And at the same time, we use the Olympics to tell stories about both Paris and France, but also the major political contexts that an Olympics must always be seen in context of". Several Danish newspapers also sent its personnel to Paris this past summer to intensely cover this Summer Olympic edition: https://journalisten.dk/dr-og-tv2-saetter-bunkevis-af-journalister-til-af-at-daekke-ol/ But for the Danish TV broadcast, Flatpanels asked both on presenting Paris 2024 in the best resolution possible. DR "received the signal in 1080i50 and then upscales it to 1080p50, so that Danish viewers get the best possible quality," but TV2 only "produced the Olympics in 1080i50 and had no plans for 4K / UHD," Both deemed producing it, at that time, in 4K/UHD would be "too expensive. It has to be purchased as an extra feed at IBC in Paris, but will not be distributed in UHD but in normal 1080i50, which would mean that we would have to transport UHD home from the Olympics ourselves, which is very expensive": https://www.flatpanels.dk/nyhed.php?subaction=showfull&id=1719560945 Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted June 5, 2025 Report Posted June 5, 2025 South Africa's Supersport celebrated the "golden triumph" that it achieved on DSTV with an average of 12.4 million South Africans unique decoded viewers and 6.4 million views streamed and 530,000 catchup watches. Days 16-17 brought out the biggest audiences each with 12.4 million viewers. This DStv Media Sales Paris 2024 Olympic video details each day with the top viewing event each day: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/golden-triumph-paris-supersport-dstv-media-sales-wjk5f The Canadian Screen Awards commenced over the weekend in Toronto, and it resulted with CBC Sports' Paris 2024 coverage walking away with only two wins for Best Original Music, Factual, Lifestyle, Reality, or Entertainment and Mark Lee in track and field for Best Play-By-Play Announcer out of its 12 nominations. Did expect it would win a few more noms than this, but I guess the other nominees in the other categories were equally strong. Also, I think having CBC Olympic Morning's Anastasia Bucsis and CBC Olympic Primetime's Andi Petrillo in the same category cancelled each other out this time to prevent either one to win. Same wasn't done with Lee and Alex Despatie being in the same category. But Petrillo has already won multiple Canadian Screen Awards already. Also also, there isn't as much in the way of tech categories like we see with the Sports Emmys: https://www.academy.ca/nominees/ Moving things focused down under, Australia's TV Week Logie Awards 2025 will announce its nominees in less than two weeks on Monday, June 16. Can expect Nine's Paris 2024 massive coverage could garner some of them like Best Sports Events. The show itself will take place at The Star Sydney on August 3 broadcast live and exclusively on Seven and 7Plus with Sam Pang again hosting: https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/celebrity-news/tv-week-logies-2025/ Chilevision, unlike many Olympic broadcasters worldwide involved with Paris 2024, didn't start its coverage with soccer and handball prior to the Opening Ceremony as Channel 11 in Santiago. The sports-obsessed Chilean TV channel started its live and exclusive 500-hour multiplatform Paris 2024 coverage also on its online signal, the Pluto TV Sports channel, and the Mi CHV app with the live opening ceremony at 1pm Chile time, lasting well after 5pm immediately after the morning show Contigo en la mañana and following the current affairs program Contigo en directo (With You Live ) will reair until 7:00 p.m., when the Sports Department will resume broadcasting with a summary of the first day with a OC re-airing later that night. On Saturday July 27th, meanwhile, things really began taking over at 4:00am for a marathon and uninterrupted session until 9:00pm, starting with the Paris 2024 debut of Chilean judoka Mary Dee Vargas and then at 4:30am in swimming with the presentation of Chilean Eduardo Cisternas. From then on, two special primetime programs were confirmed to cover the different disciplines contested in the French capital: With You in Paris (Monday to Friday from 2:00-6:00 p.m. and weekends from 8:00 am to 8:30pm) and Stellar Paris (Monday to Friday from 6:00-8:00 PM with the best moments of each day. Additionally, CHV personnel deployed for a live broadcast featuring Javiera Naranjo, Claudio Palma, Aldo Schiappacasse, Daniel Matamala, Romina Canonni, Claudio Bustios, Roberto Cox, Rodrigo Vera, and Karen Bittner, and Gastón Fouré. Karateka Valentina Toro were also present. Live coverage from France were hosted by Naranjo and Bustíos. Starting the following week, Chilevisión's afternoon schedule was completely redesigned to focus entirely on the Paris Olympics, with broadcasts starting around noon, affecting Contigo's morning broadcast schedule. After the evening newscast (3:30 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday; and 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday), the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics returned to the screens with Schiappacasse and Bittner hosting. However, at 5:30 p.m., with a break to broadcast Big Brother: It's Happening, a program hosted by Emilia Daiber that compiles the best moments that the reality show has had in the last 24 hours. At 6:15 p.m., Matamala and Canonni lead the primetime segment With You In Paris from the Summer Olympics, which continued until 9:00 p.m., when Chilevisión Noticias Central begins. Finally, for early risers, there was also a section called Paris Today with the daily highlights (2:00 a.m.) while Waking Up with Paris 2024 will be shown between 4:45 a.m. and 5:45 am: https://elfiltrador.com/chilevision-programacion-juegos-olimpicos/ https://elfiltrador.com/chilevision-juegos-olimpicos/ https://redgol.cl/juegos-olimpicos/los-juegos-olimpicos-por-tv-abierta-asi-sera-la-transmision-de-paris-2024-en-chilevision Chilevision's Paris 2024 opening ceremony presentation commentary and analysis was presented by specialists journalists Aldo Schipaccasse and Rodrigo Vera and athletes Romina Cannoni and Karen Bittner. It scored big among Chilean TV viewers and dwarfed all the other Chilean TV networks TVN, Canal 13, Mega, La Red, TV+, and Telecanal. It had reached throughout its coverage, achieving an average household rating of 6.7, reaching more than 10 million Chilean TV viewers. During this Summer Olympics period in which Chilevision comfortably winning and outperforming against the competition, Mega ranked second with 5.0 points; Canal 13 ranked third with 3.8 points; and Televisión Nacional (TVN) ranked fourth with 3.1 points. Claro Sports scored big on the pay-TV side: https://elfiltrador.com/chilevision-rating-juegos-olimpicos/ https://elfiltrador.com/chilevision-rating-juegos-olimpicos-2/ https://elfiltrador.com/paralimpicos-batalla-chilevision-claro/ Speaking of Mega, it struck a deal with Claro Sports to have the latter's Paris 2024 4-channel coverage available through the Mega GO streaming app while also streamed for fee on YouTube: https://elfiltrador.com/nuevo-rival-chilevision-juegos-olimpicos/ One of the numerous RTVE Paris 2024 promos from Spain celebrating the multiple Olympic sports in action and the athletes who indeed do celebrate with much of the footage coming from Tokyo. There will be more soon from RTVE since I unfortunately didn't touch on RTVE in recent times: Did check out again Mauritius' MBC's Channel 11, the sports channel, to see if it actually air some Olympic coverage. Turns out, judging from the schedule, it didn't at all. Mauritius' MBC isn't even listed in Wikipedia's 2024 Olympic broadcasters list. All it did show was the magazine programs Olympic Games Paris 2024: Countdown To Paris and Olympic Games Paris 2024: Guide To The Games, neither went even beyond 30 minutes. MBC Sports Channel 11 would've carried it all in English like it did in the past with various sports and focusing on Mauritius' 13 athletes in Paris. Outside of being a Supersport subscriber, downloading olympics.com, or maybe Eurosport France (not likely), Mauritians were out of luck. Azam TV's ZBC2 in Tanzania broadcasted the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics in Tanzania: https://www.instagram.com/azamtvsports/p/C90LJ0GurE-/# Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted June 25, 2025 Report Posted June 25, 2025 Nominees are in for Australia's Logie Awards, set for The Star Sydney on August 3. No shock that the Nine Network got some noms for its Paris 2024 coverage: Nine/Stan Sport's Paris 2024 has Ally Langdon for Most Popular Personality in Australian Television in a dual nom with her regular A Current Affair anchoring; Todd Woodbridge for Tipping Point Australia, Australian Open and Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024 in the Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter; and for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics themselves in Best Sports Coverage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie_Awards_of_2025 Former Test cricket skipper Mark Taylor called the women's synchronized 3m springboard diving in Paris last summer for Nine, when Aussies Anabelle Smith and Maddison Keeney were in serious contention for Australia's first medal of the Paris Olympics that slipped through them when Smith's calamatous slip off attempt in the final dive (a two-and-a-half somersaults with one twist in pike) cost them a medal, downing the "normally trusted" pair from third to fifth in the end. Apparently, that didn't sit well with not just many Australian viewers on social media but also TV star Tim Bailey, like he calls them as if the diving competition was a cricket match. Taylor even admits he doesn't know a lick about diving: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-13679901/TV-star-slams-Channel-Nine-decision-Aussie-sporting-legend-commentate-Paris-Olympics-Tim-Bailey-Mark-Taylor-diving.html Roy and HG turns out were also involved in ABC Radio Local's Paris 2024 presentation like another famous Australian-connected Olympic personality Bruce McAvaney with their observations and banter for People, Medals and Cheese that was on Monday to Friday at 11am AEST on ABC Radio and 2pm on RN and ABC listen: https://au.variety.com/2024/more/news/bruce-mcavaney-abc-olympic-games-coverage-16003/ Another notable long-running Olympic sportscaster announced during Paris 2024 that he called his last Olympics: Phil Liggett in cycling commentary, spanning 17 Olympics at age 80 after calling the women's road race. Liggett didn't want to "bore" or "too old to spoil the viewers' fun". His first one came in Moscow 1980 under very serious Soviet KGB police surveillance. Liggett is not retiring overall from calling cycling though: https://www.nine.com.au/sport/olympics/paris-2024-phil-liggett-retirement-olympics-commentary-20240804-p5jzft.html 47 million+ Mexican viewers were tuning to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics on Televisa's broadcast side (across 2, 5, and 9), TUDN, and Claro Sports, based on audience measurements from firm HR Media. Biggest viewerships came naturally with Mexican athletes involved like the bronze medal in women's team archery reached a record 3.8 million viewers, Marco Verde's boxing final with him claiming the silver medal, also reaching 3.8 million viewers. Judoka Prisca Awiti's silver medal match then was also watched by 2.2 million viewers. The diving competitions in which Osmar Olvera won medals captivated 260,000 spectators (silver in synchronized diving) and 1.6 million (bronze in individual diving). Had Mexico qualified for men's and women's Olympic soccer, audiences would've been massive. Both the opening and closing ceremonies, both reached on par around with 7.2-7.5 million people watching the live broadcast on TelevisaUnivision's open television (2, 5, and TUDN). Data for the closing ceremony on Claro Sports had not been released by the media consultancy HR Ratings at the time of writing. Claro had 1.3 million for the opening ceremony https://latinus.us/deportes/olimpicos/2024/8/16/paris-2024-ratigns-television-abierta-juegos-olimpicos-mexico-121560.html Very successful RTBF coverage of Paris 2024 with a 22.3% share of Belgium's French audience starting with 351,653 viewers watched the opening ceremony spectacle, which rewarded all the athletes, representing an audience share of 37.9%. This score is higher than that recorded for the three previous editions, whether in Tokyo (17.6%), Rio de Janeiro (16.4%) or London (31.6%). Confirming the trend of the widespread public-winning success of the Paris Olympic Games. On average, 143,138 viewers followed the entire RTBF program (the two ceremonies, the events, and the magazine), representing an audience share of 22.3%, also higher than the scores recorded during previous editions (16.3 in Tokyo, 14.4 in Rio, and 18.3 in London). In total, 3,111,382 French-speaking Belgians watched at least one second of the Olympics. Remarkably, this audience was perfectly divided between men and women. RTBF also made this parity a major issue: over the 220 hours of broadcasting, gender parity was maintained. Unsurprisingly, the Belgian Olympic stars attracted the most viewers. Nafi Thiam dominated the top spots, particularly in her decisive 800 meters (532,579 viewers). Fabio Van den Bossche, bronze medalist in track cycling, attracted 341,819 viewers in his final laps of the race, while the Belgium-France women's basketball semifinal match captivated 326,301 viewers between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. The program implemented by RTBF had won over the public. The Olympic daily magazine "A nous Paris," broadcast daily on the front page, attracted an average of 102,385 viewers, representing an audience share of 12.6%. This score is twice as high as that recorded for the magazine dedicated to the Tokyo Games in 2021 (6.2%). The number of listens or downloads of the "Complètement Jeux" podcast reached 15,536, making it the eighth most listened to content during this period. On Viva Sport, the number of sessions reached 27,872 over the first thirteen days of competition. The Paris Olympic Games also attracted audiences to our digital platforms. Auvio (3.7 million views), RTBF Actus (2 million), and our various partners (1.2 million) generated 6.9 million views during the fortnight, both live and on replay. On our RTBF News website, content related to the Games generated 3.4 million page views and 1.1 million unique visitors. On social media, 3 million interactions and 31 million video views were recorded across all RTBF networks. These scores reward the work and passion of all the RTBF teams: https://www.rtbf.be/article/22-3-de-part-d-audience-moyenne-sur-la-rtbf-les-jo-de-paris-2024-battent-des-records-11420016 Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted July 15, 2025 Report Posted July 15, 2025 So last year I bought online the USA Today around the time of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics from its online store. Following is based on what I can recall--still have mine but it's buried in storage. If you have yourselves a copy of it, feel free to make any corrections as to what I say here. The preview is, not unexpectedly, filled with USA-centricism in every sport Team USA qualified in, often dealing with a bit of an American profile from that sport. And profiles. But what's really interesting with this edition is there's no map of Paris and describing it before delving into the sports previews. No NBC Paris 2024 TV schedule printed like in past USA Olympic editions. This, I think, has something to do with Peacock, possessor of all 5000+ hours to stream and watch. Could be wrong. Its overall schedule at the time was still trying to be finalized (and certainly was so) with respect to that and scheduling what times for USA ET come press time. The NBC Paris 2024 schedule was done afterwards just days before the start USA Today's general overview Paris 2024 coverage plans it made for print, its website, social media, and mobile apps with highlights, analysis, news, and athlete profiles--and offered streaming tips: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/06/18/paris-olympics-coverage-from-usa-today/74135413007/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/07/17/how-to-watch-paris-olympics-2024/74373516007/ There was even a Team GB Paris 2024 Summer Olympic preview guide that also released at this time too: https://magsdirect.co.uk/magazine/official-team-gb-guide-to-paris/ Radio-Canada got hit with criticisms over showing a total of 42 minutes of commercials during the 5-hour opening ceremony presentation, "which is less than in regular programming," the broadcaster insisted. Radio-Canada also indicated that the ratio between advertising and content was roughly the same at the same time on CBC, its English-language counterpart. That said, many viewers will have noticed that the presentation of the opening ceremony on France 2, a French public channel, was not punctuated by as many commercial breaks. But Radio-Canada maintains that advertising during major events of this type is a necessary evil like with all major events, it cannot present the show continuously without any commercial interruption. But was seeking "a better balance" between presenting commercials and content in upcoming major events starting with the closing ceremony. On Monday, the public broadcaster said it had received 154 comments about the ad during the Paris opening show, which does not include those sent from social media: https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/medias/817298/radio-canada-critique-cause-annonces-durant-ceremonie-ouverture CRTV, in addition to CRTV Premium, CRTV Sports, and the National Post, had a daily Paris 2024 news program on CRTV Web during these Summer Olympics called OL'INFO that started July 24 and hosted by Vanessa Onana. First episode dealt with Cameroon's Summer Olympics journey starting with the Tokyo 1964 Summer Olympics that led to 6 medals overall, including 3 golds, in its 15 Olympics competed and the history of the Summer Olympics overall. Each day from the start and to the end would feature recaps of the day's competition. It also presented Image of the Day with photos of the events from each Paris 2024 competition day: https://mediatudecmr.com/crtv-web-lance-un-programme-dedie-aux-jo-2024/#google_vignette Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted July 17, 2025 Report Posted July 17, 2025 Quebec's 40th annual Prix Gemeux does have SRC/Radio-Canada Sports' Paris 2024 coverage nominated in Best Sports Broadcast for LES JEUX OLYMPIQUES DE PARIS 2024 - Catherine Dupont, Luc Lebel and Jean-Patrick Balleux, Guillaume Dumas, Martin Labrosse, Geneviève Lefebvre-Tardif, Jacinthe Taillon all got nominated together as studio anchor hosts in Best Presenters. Winners will be announced September 12 and 14: https://academie.ca/prixgemeaux/857/finalistes Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted July 17, 2025 Report Posted July 17, 2025 9 minutes ago, Durban Sandshark said: Quebec's 40th annual Prix Gemeux does have SRC/Radio-Canada Sports' Paris 2024 coverage nominated in Best Sports Broadcast for LES JEUX OLYMPIQUES DE PARIS 2024 - Catherine Dupont, Luc Lebel and Jean-Patrick Balleux, Guillaume Dumas, Martin Labrosse, Geneviève Lefebvre-Tardif, Jacinthe Taillon all got nominated together as studio anchor hosts in Best Presenters. Winners will be announced September 12 and 14: https://academie.ca/prixgemeaux/857/finalistes * clarification: Dupont and Lebel are nominated in the first one as the award goes to the directors in the first category. Balleux, Dumas, Lefebvre-Tardif, and Tallon all are in the second catgory for the best host. Sorry for the seemingly run-on sentence. Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted August 7, 2025 Report Posted August 7, 2025 First post here right during the 1-year anniversary of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics! Can't believe it! Still lots to mention that we missed here from up to that points, as I promised. France 4 re-aired, right on the 1-year anniversary of Paris 2024 on July 26 at 9pm, The Grand Seine behind-the-scenes Opening Ceremony documentary taking us back. An opening ceremony with 23.2 million viewers, becoming the second largest audience in French television history after the the 2022 FIFA World Cup final: https://www.programme-tv.net/news/tv/383149-vous-ne-devez-surtout-pas-manquer-ce-documentaire-sur-les-secrets-de-la-ceremonie-des-jo-2024-qui-nous-replonge-dans-les-souvenirs-dun-ete-enchante/ Online viewers got outraged when a technical glitch, actually an unintended commercial break when transitioning when switching channels in Paris 2024 Summer Olympics coverage, interrupted the men's 110m hurdle semifinals live presentation on France 3. France 5 took up the full rebroadcasting. French track and field fans hoped Sasha Zhoya would make it to the final. But he didn't, angering fans even more as France's track and field/athletics team continued to disappoint. France Televisions apologizes: https://www.programme-tv.net/news/evenement/jo-2024-jo-2024/358348-jo-2024-france-televisions-presente-ses-excuses-apres-avoir-interrompu-une-epreuve-en-direct-a-cause-d-un-probleme-technique/ France Televisions also didn't show everything from the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony live. 98% of it was with 2% already recorded because of the buildings; https://www.programme-tv.net/news/evenement/jo-2024-jo-2024/357527-jo-2024-voici-pourquoi-la-ceremonie-d-ouverture-ne-sera-pas-integralement-retransmise-en-direct/ Hong Kong's RTHK found Paris 2024 Summer Olympics live streaming success thanks to help with Mediatech (engineering consulting, elastic backend system, and effective dealing with surging viewer demand) and Vindral (providing delivery solutions) for synchronized experience with low latency for HK homes, bars, and restaurants: https://www.sportsvideo.org/2024/11/04/hong-kongs-rthk-finds-paris-olympics-streaming-success-with-mediatech-vindral/ A collection of RMC's Paris 2024 podcasts that run 15 pages long from March 18, 2023 to September 14, 2024 with the Paralympics ending: https://rmc.bfmtv.com/podcasts/jo-paris-2024/ 60 journalists, 18 consultants, and four radio stations were involved for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games under the RMC Sport banner last summer. To ensure that the Olympic Games "are a celebration and unite the French around the Blues ," as Karim Nedjari wishes, 60 journalists and 18 consultants were dedicated to its radio coverage. Among the former French athletes, in addition to the essential figures of the radio like David Douillet and Marion Bartoli, new voices made their appearance: boxer Maïva Hamadouche, handball player Siraba Dembélé, sabre fencer Boris Sanson and track athlete Pierre-Ambroise Bosse. From July 22, 2024 RMC began to tune into Olympic time before, on July 26, dedicating 20 hours out of 24 of its programs to the event: Sébastien Krebs hosted the Olympic Pre-Morning (5 a.m.-6:30 a.m.), Anaïs Castagna and Nicolas Jamain the Olympic Morning (6 a.m.-9 a.m.), before giving way to the Paris 2024 Intégrale from 9 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. (with Estelle Denis, Jean-Louis Tourre, etc.). "And, at the end of the evening, we will have L'After olympique, in the style of L'After foot, with Gilbert Brisbois and David Douillet," underlines Emmanuel Renard, the editorial director of RMC and RMC Sport. With all the news coming from the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. Alongside the RMC offering, three digital radio stations were made available, kinda like what France Televisions structured: one dedicated to the French team, where it will be possible to follow all the French athletes competing at any given moment, another dedicated to team sports, and a final one dedicated to individual sports. A digital channel was also dedicated to the Paralympic Games starting August 28, with six reporters and a consultant: https://www.lequipe.fr/Jo-2024-paris/Football/Actualites/Le-dispositif-de-rmc-pour-l-euro-et-les-jeux-olympiques-et-paralympiques/1468000 Naturally that it was located in France as the Summer Olympics hosts. National interest over the Summer Olympics would be very high and earn a gold medal for RMC Sport, shattering audience records from Tokyo 2020: https://www.rmcbfm-ads.com/actualites/audiences-jeux-olympique-paris-2024.html Over at the Dominican Republic, as already mentioned, the Dominican national Paris 2024 Olympic TV coverage was shared by Antena 7 and Canal 21. Both owned and operated by Albavision, which also does likewise with other Latin American nations' channels that acted as national Paris 2024 Summer Olympic broadcasters. Didn't get to tell about the coverage in fuller detail back then. But here it is. I wrote it down much at the time from Gato TV. Antena 7 didn't show any pre-Opening Ceremony sports but it started its coverage with the Opening Ceremony live at 12:30-4:30pm Dominican Republic time with a re-airing at 10pm-2am on July 26. Afterwards, Antena 7 showed daily coverage under 2 3-hour blocks on 8-11am and 1-4pm except for July 27 (7-10am), July 28 (9am-12pm), July 29, August 5-10, (none scheduled), August 3-4 (10am-1pm). Also aired the Closing Ceremony August 11 1-4pm--no encore showing there. Canal 21 is a problem to find its Paris 2024 programming online. Would like to think it offered more hours of programming than Antena 7 did--can't yet find a TV guide online indicating it. There's no mention online that I could find what Canal 21 offered. But I'll try again to find it. Will get to Macau's TDM more a little later. But TDM did cover Paris 2024 live with also the TDM Sports Channel and sent three reporters to Paris to cover firsthand and produce a series of daily specials following TDM's Executive Committee holding a special meeting to discuss the specific arrangements for covering the Paris Olympic Games. A special on-air farewell TDM ceremony was held and presented the programming schedule to TDM's senior management while thanking neighboring China's CCTV for support. During the Paris Olympics, TDM will continue to work with the team and organize quizzes and related programs on its multimedia platform for the local and Greater Bay viewers. Joseph Tam was the primary face of this modest team as it presented and also hoped to talk with Macau's athletes that couldn't participate because Macau isn't a member of the IOC: https://www.tdm.com.mo/zh-hant/news-detail/987750?isvideo=true&lang=en&shortvideo=0&category=all https://apps.tdm.com.mo/en/news-detail/987604 M4 Sport began offering exciting content to viewers from Wednesday July 24. Public media is preparing a more detailed program for the summer games than ever before. ‘We prepare intensively for every Olympic Games, but the Paris Olympics will have even greater significance due to the matching time zone,’ said Dávid Székely, the channel director of M4 Sport. ‘Not a day has gone by in the past three years without the Olympics being a topic. Our goal is to showcase everything important to Hungarian fans, including our compatriots’ performances, interviews, and hopefully many medal ceremonies. This year, we aim to present the Olympics of the Hungarians to Hungarians, complemented by events where we are not directly involved but which attract significant interest,’ M4 Sport started broadcasting the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics the Wednesday afternoon prior to the opening ceremony, covering the first matches of the men's soccer tournament, with the Hungarian women’s handball team joining in the following day at 7pm Hungary time in a group play opener versus eventual silver medalists France. From next Saturday, M4 Sport+ also joined the broadcast, allowing Hungarians to support their athletes across multiple channels. Additionally, the Summer Olympic events were followed live on five digital channels on m4sport.hu, covering content not fully featured on the two main channels. These were viewed for free without registration and mainly focused on team handball and the men’s basketball tournaments alongside the Hungarian competitors. Kossuth Radio once again broadcast the competitions involving Hungarian athletes live. Nemzeti Sport has been providing first-hand reports from the site since the Paris Olympics in 1924 and has done so ever since. Last year, they continuously informed their readers about everything happening in the French capital through their online platforms. ‘We are preparing for sports fans with a strong on-site team, sports experts, extensive coverage, and exclusive interviews,’ said György Szöllősi, editor-in-chief of the sports daily and chairman of the MTVA Sports Coordination Editorial Board. The websites m4sport.hu and nemzetisport.hu, as well as their social media platforms, offered sports fans numerous behind-the-scenes content and summaries involving Hungarian interests, all free of charge: https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/culture_society/public-media_broadcast_coverage_paris_olympics/#:~:text=he added%2C according to a,tournaments alongside the Hungarian competitors. M4 Sport Paris 2024 coverage was moderated by Bence Mohay in the morning, Judit Berkesi during the day, and Andrea Petrovics-Mérei in the evening, and summaries will be made of the day's events so far and the upcoming ones. In addition, events that were not or only partially included on the two channels were made available live on five additional digital channels on m4sport.hu. These were viewed free of charge and without registration. In addition to Hungarian competitions, team handball and men's basketball tournaments will be shown there. Further info on Kossuth Radio broadcasting live Paris 2024 competitions of Hungarian interest, their program Halló, itt Páriz will be available from 9 a.m. onwards. Compared to the previous Olympics, it is new that the public media will now also broadcast the events on the National Sports Radio on Budapest's FM 105.9 and on the mobile app. In the Sportreggel program starting at 8:40 a.m., they broadcast live from Paris, and then in the program Körskáplát, the radio's 12 correspondents will report continuously throughout the day on events of Hungarian interest: https://media1.hu/2024/07/17/parizsi-olimpia-kozvetites-mtva-m4-sport-kossuth-radio/ The Paris 2024 Olympics surpassed the Tokyo 2020 Olympics both in terms of television viewers and streaming views, thanks to the advantage of the time zone coinciding with the Italian one and a wider coverage. As reported in Italia Oggi, RAI2 recorded a 52% increase in viewers compared to Tokyo, with an average of almost 2 million during the races. Streaming also saw a surge, with a 440% increase for RAI and a 191% increase for WB Discovery's HBO Max. The success of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics was partly due to the broadcast times being more accessible to Italian audiences with a European-held Summer Olympics, as well as increased television coverage and availability on streaming platforms such as RAIPlay, which were not available during Tokyo 2020. Similar results were also seen for RAI Sport and Eurosport , which recorded significant increases in audience: the former achieved a daily share of 4.9% (compared to 0.3% during Tokyo 2020, which was not broadcast by the channel) while the latter closed with an average share of 1.2%. 2024 Olympics Audience: The Most-Watched Sports. The most-watched sports from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games for Italians? To answer this question, on-demand data was provided by RAI, which compiled the top four most-watched sporting events during the French edition. 1. Artistic gymnastics (gold medal for Alice d'Amato and bronze medal for Manila Esposito) 2. Women's Volleyball final versus USA (gold) 3. Swimming (gold medal for Nicolò Martinenghi in the 100m breaststroke) 4. Tennis (gold medal for Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini in doubles) https://www.sportefinanza.it/2024/08/28/audience-parigi-2024-supera-tokyo-2020/?refresh_ce SporTV's Paris 2024 coverage's animated intro as created and developed by #CGplay's Carlos Geovane. Brings up various Summer Olympic sports like soccer, volleyball, tennis, swimming, gymnastics, track and field, surfing, cycling, and skateboarding with Paris landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, the Stade De France, the Seine and its bridges through multiple colors: SCM Group, from the Entek Group, ensured maximum coverage for the 2024 Olympics for Indonesians in the hundred of millions. SCTV broadcasted the opening ceremony live, including ALL badminton with the massive national Indonesian interest back home. Meanwhile, SCM, through Moji, focused on volleyball matches with a total of 24 matches will be broadcast live on MOJI. Meanwhile, SCM deployed Vidio to broadcast all sports at the 2024 Olympics. So Bolaneters can watch all matches from all sports on the OTT service: https://www.bola.net/lain_lain/mantap-scm-group-bakal-siarkan-langsung-olimpiade-paris-2024-di-indonesia-652296.html Quote
BigVic Posted August 7, 2025 Author Report Posted August 7, 2025 https://www.nine.com.au/entertainment/latest/logies-2025-full-list-winner-nominees-results-news/fd2d1319-eb94-4fbf-b953-d37544e0dafe Nine Entertainment won the Gold Logie (equivalent of the Emmys) for the best sports coverage for last year's Paris Olympic Games coverage Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted August 14, 2025 Report Posted August 14, 2025 On 8/6/2025 at 8:17 PM, BigVic said: https://www.nine.com.au/entertainment/latest/logies-2025-full-list-winner-nominees-results-news/fd2d1319-eb94-4fbf-b953-d37544e0dafe Nine Entertainment won the Gold Logie (equivalent of the Emmys) for the best sports coverage for last year's Paris Olympic Games coverage Was gonna bring that up. Can also add that Todd Woodbridge, who went double duty in Paris for both the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games last summer, won the Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter. First opening minutes of transmission for SporTV's Paris 2024 coverage on July 24, 2024. From the animated intro to footage of notable Brazilian Olympians in various sports like Marta, Hortencia Macari, Rebeca Andrade, Joao De Oliviera, Fabiana Murer, Hebert Conceicao, and Cesar Cielo taking deep breaths, then competing, then letting out screams and celebrating. Then we see the famous Paris landmarks--Arc De Triumph, the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, and the still-reworked Notre Dame Cathedral. Jader Rocha and Eric Faria serving as its first studio hosts introductory and general overview about Paris and the Olympics and discussing what the coverage plans will be like 4K presentations on Sportv, SporTV 2, SporTV 3, SporTV 4 plus 40 different streaming Globoplay signals and 250 hours of pro-Brazil coverage on Globo. Faria speaks on the upcoming Olympic soccer without the men's teams and how France may fare at the time: The following is an overview and roster on the SporTV commentators and what they did in Paris, whether they are veterans like Milton Leite and Paulo Andrade or a relative newcomer like Alline Calandrini who covered women's soccer. Leite departed SporTV following its Paris 2024 presentation after a diminished role there and wanting to spend more time with his grandkids, thus leaving a huge void there. Marcelo Barreto and Fabi Alvim (who just finished directing a documentary aired on SporTV: "As Bicampeãs," in which she talks to her teammates from the two-time Olympic champions in women's volleyball, Beijing 2008 and London 2012) co-hosted Ca Va, Paris (translated as How Are You, Paris?). But Fabi was still Rio De Janeiro while Marcelo was on location in Paris. Returnees included André Rizek will return to Olympic coverage, eight years after the landmark presentation of É Campeão olímpico at Rio 2016 and commentator/blogger Guilherme Costa: https://www.surtoolimpico.com.br/2024/07/guia-de-transmissao-paris-2024-sportv.html Indonesian SCM press conference in Jakarta announcing and celebrating its Paris 2024 coverage through its five platforms SCTV, NEX, Vidio, Champions TV, and Modji. Lasted nearly 90 minutes: https://www.vidio.com/watch/8238868-press-conference-official-broadcaster-announcement-olympic-games-paris-2024 KBC (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation) broadcasted the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, after securing the free-to-air rights, with live coverage of selected events on KBC Channel 1 and across its FM stations, showcasing Kenya's athletes it sent in various disciplines including athletics, rugby sevens, volleyball, fencing, judo, and swimming en route to Kenya finishing first in Africa in the medal tally at the Paris Olympics with of course some soccer, basketball, gymnastics, maybe some diving shown. ATV Peru's Paris 2024 promo with a couple of guys, can't ID them for now, both discussing the spectacle and the athletes' talents bringing the world together in Paris while speaking in French with Spanish subtitles in front of Summer Olympic Games footage from Tokyo 2020. Also mentioning that ATV would present the Olympic live and free-to-air: Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted September 18, 2025 Report Posted September 18, 2025 Will get to return to RTE very soon. But RTE attempted to bring its Paris 2024 coverage to Northern Ireland, a part of the British Home Nations, considering that's also part of the Irish island along with the Republic of Ireland and with the BBC's. But was denied permission, yet RTE was allowed to have its news bulletins in Northern Ireland, which did include Irish Olympic news. The BBC held exclusive coverage licensing those rights in a UK Olympics rights deal agreed between the BBC and the pan-European rights holder, Discovery, which is a combo of (mostly) British and Irish, back in 2016. This perhaps might be an after-effect of Brexit when dealing with Northern Ireland and Ireland. No Gaelic language coverage either: https://about.rte.ie/2024/07/25/rte-statement-rte-coverage-of-olympic-games-2024-paris/ TV5 Monde Europe aired a current affairs program episode entitled Nous, Les Europeens that's hosted by Eleonore Gay. In one 26-minute sports-oriented episode, JO 2024 : tous dans les starting-blocks!, it touches on Sweden and its sport for all program as a European leader meeting the man who envisioned it: Johan Holmsäter and France's athletes' and venues' preparations and readiness at the time. Also available in 7 languages: https://europe.tv5monde.com/en/tv-guide/news-current-affairs/nous-les-europeens/jo-2024-tous-dans-les-starting-blocks-1117577 How the OBS broadcasted the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, the biggest multisport event in the world, with this behind the scenes look: https://www.olympics.com/en/video/behind-the-screen-paris-2024 NRK had acquired the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics a year before its start for the first time 12 years since London 2012 with exclusive rights to track and field. And it had just a year in record time in planning that Paris coverage in Oslo: (paywall) https://www.m24.no/anders-sarheim-friidrett-kristine-skeide/nrk-fikk-ol-rettighetene-for-under-ett-ar-siden-matte-planlegge-i-rekordfart-1/739187 Caze TV, a bigtime Brazilian streaming channel fronted by Casimiro Miguel, scored major viewing numbers of the Paris 2024 opening ceremony with approximately 500,000 viewers that was narrated by Milton Cunha. Strong numbers they were for that there, they couldn't compete with TV Globo/SporTV's. The dominant Brazilian channels reached 36.4 million viewers, a 5.6 million (+18%) increase compared to the Tokyo ceremony in 2021. The figure also represents a 4.1 million (+13%) increase in the combined reach of these audiences over the last four weeks: https://www.terra.com.br/diversao/gente/cazetv-destronou-a-globo-na-abertura-das-olimpiadas-de-paris-2024-saiba-quanto-emissora-e-canal-do-youtube-tiveram-de-audiencia,2c3b0b35562c51c1389ed9be525bc866c33fos7l.html#google_vignette Greece's ERT had an excellent Paris 2024 broadcast on its huge television project for 17 consecutive days, were also reflected in the television ratings table with extremely high rates of up to 70.7% on the linear channels of public television, as well as a record viewing figure on ERTFLIX with 1,960,000 views. Overall, from July 26, the opening date of the Olympic Games, until Sunday, August 11, 2024 (closing ceremony), ERT (ERT1, ERT2, ERT3) recorded a cumulative viewership of 22.7%, which was higher than both the corresponding coverage of the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021 (viewing 16.6%) and the Olympic Games in Rio (viewing 18.4%). During this same period, ERTFLIX collected 15,724,000 views , of which 76% came from non-TV devices, while 35% came from mobile phones. As recorded by the measurements, the interest of the television audience was undiminished throughout the event. However, the television viewership broke records, as expected, during the Greek participations. The Greek Men's National Basketball Team matches, starring Giannis Antetokounmpo, set unprecedented Greek basketball television ratings records. For example, the crucial match against the world champions from Germany recorded an average television rating on ERT1 of 38.4%. Among the dynamic audience (18-54) 39.6%, while among men (18-34) 70.7%! ERT's television ratings were also high during the efforts of Emmanuel Karalis (32.4%), Miltos Tentoglou (37%), Lefteris Petrounias (34%), Katerina Stefanidi (31.7%), Greece's National Men's Polo Team in their quest for fifth place against Serbia (20.5% in the dynamic audience), as well as the rest of our athletes. The television ratings were equally high in top matches such as the Basketball Final between USA and France (20.5% in the dynamic audience). The interest of the television audience in the opening and closing ceremonies broadcast by ERT1, as well as ERT3, which also had simultaneous interpretation in Greek sign language, was also great. The opening ceremony recorded a cumulative audience share of 43.4% and the closing ceremony 31.3%, a higher performance than the corresponding ones in Tokyo (11.2.3%) and Rio (31.1%). As for ERTFLIX ... the Olympic Games in Paris once again confirmed the audience's shift to new global viewing trends. And during the 17 days of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games, there were many who chose ERT's digital platform to watch their favorite sports from squares to... beaches! Especially on Tuesday, August 6, 2024, the day of the men's quarterfinal basketball match between Greece and Germany, there was a record of total viewings with 1,960,000 views, of which 815,000 were from mobile phones (new record). All of this, of course, could not have been done without the assistance of the people of ERT. The public television broadcaster sent its own mission to the French capital with employees of all specialties, journalists, directors, production managers, cameramen, sound engineers, as well as social media editors who contributed their utmost, so that ERT's three linear TV channels (ERT1, ERT2 and ERT3) and two digital ones (ERT SPORTS 1 and ERT SPORTS 2) could broadcast 900 hours of programming directly. The contribution of the employees at the Radio Megaron was also decisive for the coordination of the ambitious project and the smooth transmission of the entire event. A continuous flow of news was available 24 hours a day, from the news channel ΕΡΤNEWS , the news site ertnews.gr , the sports site ertsports.gr , and the sports radio ERA SPORT. The mood of the day was also conveyed every night by the sports show "Olympic Nights" At the bottom of this is ERT's nearly 1:30-minute promo summarizing and reflecting on Greece's Paris 2024 campaign highlights with footage of Giannis Antetokounmpo and his Greek men's national basketball teammates, gold medalist long jumper Miltiadis Tentoglou, backstroke swimming silver medalist Apostolos Christou, bronze medalists in judoka Theodoros Tselidis, gymnast Eleftherios Petrounias, pole vaulter Emmanouil Karalis, wrestler Dauren Kurugliev, and rowers Antonios Papakonstantinou, Petros Gkaidatzis, Zoi Fitsiou, and Milena Kontou, pole vaulter Katerina Stefanidi, synchronized swimmers Sofia Malkogeorgou and Evangelia Platanioti, the Greek men's and women's water polo teams, fencer Theodora Gkountoura, tennis stars Stefanos Tsitsipas and Maria Sakkari, equestrian Ioli Mytilineou, high jumper Tatiana Gushin, table tennis player Panagiotis Gionis, cyclist Georgios Bouglas, and shooter Anna Korakaki : https://press.ert.gr/grafeio-typou-ert/olympiakoi-agones-sto-parisi-rekor-tiletheasis-stin-ert-ypsiles-ptiseis-kai-gia-to-ertflix/ No Luxembourg isn't forgotten here on this thread, thanks to RTL...and some AI Mode from Google. Will get to it next time with more from Greece, Ireland, and other nations. Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted September 29, 2025 Report Posted September 29, 2025 Over in Sweden earlier this month on September 4, the 3800-hour Swedish broadcast of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics from Kanal 5/Eurosport Sverige/HBO Max, a coverage that thrilled Swedes with record-breaking pole vaulter Armando Duplantis, swimmer Sarah Sjostrom, and Truls Moreguldth setting Swedish Olympic viewership records, each with well north of a million tuned in, was nominated for the Kristallen 2025 Award's Best Sports Production of The Year with John Witt credited as producer at Stockholm's Circus with TV4's Swedish Hockey League, Kanal 5's Allsvenskan, SVT's Vasaloppet (Nordic Cross Country Skiing), and Viaplay/TV6's Skiing World Championships. But the Kristallen Award in that category went to TV4's SHL. Incidentally, the Kristallen 2025 Awards were shown on SVT Play, the returning Swedish home of the current Olympic cycle: https://press.warnerbrosdiscovery.se/post/har-ar-nomineringarna-till-kristallengalan-for-kanal-5-och-hbo-m https://kristallen.tv/nominerade Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted October 1, 2025 Report Posted October 1, 2025 Costa Ricans hoping to see their own surfer, Brisa Hennessy, competing in the Paris 2024 women's surfing semifinals over in Tahiti on Repretel's digital Channel 6 had to deal with an unexpected signal loss interruption prompted by lightning strike near the canal but that there was no damage and they have already confirmed with all the cable companies that the signal has been restored. Repretel's personnel, before apologizing, didn't understand what happening initially. Also effected its other channel, Channel 11: https://www.lateja.cr/teleguia/deportes/tuvo-problemas-para-ver-a-brisa-hennessy-por/O4J72UZ7YRCRJDQ33PVEG3QL7E/story/ International Sports Broadcasting's (ISB) Ursula Romero speaks on how they in the OBS maintain the high quality control in shooting and modern pentathlon under intense pressure and maintaining it picture perfect while also coping with the death of her dad Manolo. Everything must run well ensuring for all parties--the rights holding broadcasters, federations and OBS--are happy: creating the production plan [for those sports]; camera drawings, narratives, and they’re in direct liaison with the organizing committee regarding broadcast, and also with the federation. They’re the ones who decide where the cameras go and how they get used: https://www.svgeurope.org/blog/headlines/paris-2024-isbs-ursula-romero-on-how-obs-quality-control-teams-made-sure-the-olympics-was-picture-perfect/ Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted November 19, 2025 Report Posted November 19, 2025 When the BBC won the BAFTA Television Awards for Best Sport Coverage with the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, a first in 20 years for them in that, Alastair McIntyre, a BBC Sports editor and spokesperson for the team, in the winner’s press conference vowed "that, bearing in mind the government’s position following the UK Supreme Court judgment, the team are aware of how important it is to 'get the tone right' and 'cover it with fairness' " regarding the treatment of LGBQTIA+ athletes. Claire Balding adds that she's enjoys being at the Olympics and Paralympics over the years, something that's she synonymous with, and loves to continue on with that "as long as [the BBC] let me" Quote “I love the variety, the challenge that it presents, because you’ve got to take on board a lot of information,” she said. “David Attenborough’s 99 and is still going strong!” “It’s challenging and I will keep doing it for as long as they let me.” https://diva-magazine.com/2025/05/12/clare-balding-bafta/ Paris 2024 Olympics viewership rises by 25% to 28.7 billion hours. These Olympics generated 16.7 billion engagements for the IOC: https://www.sportspro.com/news/paris-2024-olympics-ioc-viewership-coverage-social-digital-engagement-december-2024/ During Paris 2024, female athletes contribute 67% of Team GB TikTok viewership of the involved athletes who competed there with Lina Nielson being the top Team GB female TikTok athlete. The Women's Sports Trust also found that 52% of the BBC’s audience for the Olympics was female. Weightlifter Lottie McGuinness got the most-watched video viewership for a Team GB Paralympian. 52% of the BBC's Paris 2024 audience was female: https://www.sportspro.com/news/paris-2024-olympics-paralympics-team-gb-female-athletes-tiktok/ In keeping with the theme of greater media coverage prominence of female athletes in Paris, there was still some sexism and stereotypical barriers and moments. Especially since the exact 100 years when Paris last hosted the Summer Olympics when the women's Olympic sports roster was much more limited--and a lot changed. Much of it unconscious bias, despite progress. Like scheduling men's events getting more highlighted (something Paris 2024 did differently to boost women's sports). And the need to change how camera operators show female athletes and not show them as sexy and attractive. Like with more close-up shots of them than men: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/sports/article/2024/07/28/paris-2024-camera-operators-instructed-to-avoid-sexist-filming-of-women-athletes_6703094_9.html How the New York Times, via The Athletic, planned to cover Paris 2024: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/insider/olympics-paris-coverage.html The Paris 2024 revenues from Stan Sports uplifted the streaming service. But that wasn't enough to stem the 15% decline tide for the Nine Network in Australia in its A$96 million profit. More on Stan Sport next post: https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/nine-profits-slump-despite-stan-revenue-uplift/ Paris 2024 in-depth analysis came on AlKass TV daily in Qatar from 12:00 to 14:00 and 21:39 to 00:00, particularly with swimming. But I think this was the daily highlight/news/analys times: https://www.facebook.com/proswimlb/videos/day-6-olympics-catch-in-depth-analysis-on-alkass-tv-daily-from-1200-to-1400-and-/1165129491417214/ Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted December 19, 2025 Report Posted December 19, 2025 Been neglecting New Zealand's Paris 2024 coverage from SKY New Zealand for too long. Woman's Day took some time to talk with SKY Sports NZ's Paris 2024 presenting faces Kimberlee Downs (3rd Olympics), Andrew Mulligan (4th Olympics), Ricki Swannell (6th Olympics), and Jeff McTainsh over their favorite Kiwi Olympic memories, how they will cope being in Paris, travel joys and mishaps, their Olympic sport addition wishes, and their French proficiencies: https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/news/sky-olympics-presenters/ Small nations like New Zealand punches above its weight during the Olympics, even with its 12 channels (reduced from 16) and its free-to-air SKY Open channel (formerly PRIME), where all the Kiwi athletes, both ceremonies live, all the best international stuff, and studio segments went (including The Crowd Goes Wild). Starting with New Zealand's men's and women's first Olympic soccer group matches and then onward to their rugby sevens men's and women's teams, rowing, kayaking, triathlon, swimming, field hockey, gymnastics, golf, track and field, cycling, equestrian, and sailing. Those other 12 channels are basically taking the MDS service from OBS English commentary, where they were supplied with the most appropriate content they can find. Speaking of small, Sky New Zealand’s Andrew Hawthorn says the small production team in Paris is supplementing the OBS MDS service with interviews and other content captured by ENG crews being based there to cover the 95 New Zealand athletes. All the cutting down and production work takes place in Auckland. “The control room in New Zealand has EVS and is turning stuff around and augmenting the coverage,” Hawthorn explains. “We have a massive room that we call our Games control room, which looks after the 12-channel service, marrying up the feeds so they are on the appropriate channel.” The main job of the production team in Paris is to supplement the MDS with content that might not be sent down those lines. All the equipment Sky New Zealand has in Paris is its own gear, shipped over from New Zealand. ENG is a big part of the effort. The crew relies on LiveU for most transmission, but, for mixed-zone interviews, the units plug into available internet pipes for reliable and steady transport. “We will cover things, such as qualifying events, that are not being carried,” he adds. “We have six unilateral lines for sending feeds, and the commentary is done in New Zealand. On top of that, we have six ENG crews, and our main operation here is to get those six ENG crews to the appropriate venues for interviews.” An editor in Paris handles mixed-zone cut-downs or feature stories that add color and atmosphere to the production. Notes Hawthorn, “We’re trying to capture the essence of Paris with stories that show what it is like to be here at the Games.” For the New Zealand audience, the most popular events are, first, the Rugby Sevens, followed by rowing, kayaking, and, this year, the triathlon. “We step up for the Olympics and generally out-punch our weight,” says Hawthorn. “We got 20 medals in Tokyo, which was a good haul for a country our size. I think we’re going to do quite well this time. We have some hopes we are going to start getting some medals for the public back home.” Viewer feedback on coverage has been positive so far, and the Sky New Zealand service has seen a lot of uptake. “We’re seeing a lot of interest and some really good ratings,” he says, “even though it can be hard when you’re in an opposite time zone.” https://www.sportsvideo.org/2024/08/04/live-from-paris-2024-sky-new-zealands-focus-on-eng-ensures-signal-transport-to-auckland-is-spot-on/#:~:text=The broadcaster offers 12 pay,the coverage%2C” Hawthorn explains. For SKY NZ, it scored gold on the first four days of its Paris 2024 coverage with over 1.72 million "incredibly engaged" viewers on its Olympic channels July 24-28. Audiences have also flocked to Sky’s digital platforms, Sky Sport Now and Sky Go, with 3,359,346 total streams during the same period. This is made up of 234,767 total unique viewers across the two streaming platforms with the most popular sports of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games so far include Rowing, Swimming and Equestrian. For the Opening Ceremony, 911,600 Kiwis tuned in to see the event on Sky’s Olympic channels, with a further 90,501 people streaming the ceremony on Sky Sport Now and Sky Go: https://www.screenscribe.net/olympics-score-gold-for-sky/ 1.4 million Kiwis (over a fifth of NZ's residents watched SKY's coverage every day during Paris 2024. Over 2.8 million watched overall at 58% of the New Zealand population on SKY's Olympic channels in rallying behind their athletes. Sky's team in Paris delivered 82 live crosses and an 170 pre-recorded previews and recaps during the event. Quote The specific events which drew the most New Zealanders to tune in included Hayden Wilde's silver medal in the men's triathlon; Lydia Ko's gold medal-winning final round in the women's golf; and the women's pole vault qualifiers which saw Eliza McCartney, Imogen Ayris and Olivia McTaggart all progress to the final. Sky said the rowing and canoe sprint finals that resulted in medals for Dame Lisa Carrington, Alicia Hoskin, Emma Twigg, Lucy Spoors, and Brooke Francis also drew in high viewership numbers. The most-watched sports overall were athletics, rowing, swimming, canoe sprinting, artistic gymnastics and golf. "But what truly stood out were the raw, exclusive interviews with our athletes - these moments of triumph and heartbreak resonated deeply with audiences." https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/olympics-2024/525138/2-point-8-million-kiwis-tune-in-to-watch-paris-olympic-games RNZ's Nathan Rarere from its sports show First Up discusses his "go-go-go" adventures in Paris during the Summer Olympics covering it for his show at the New Zealand House and talking to all the Kiwi athletes and all the pinch me moments he happily encountered there: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/524851/it-s-been-go-go-go-every-minute-covering-the-paris-olympics Eurosport Italia sent a large team of over 100 people by contrast to SKY Sport NZ. Including Dorothea Wierer, Margherita Granbassi, Roberta Vinci, Valentina Marchei, Rachele Sangiuliano, Andrea Meneghin, Luca Dotto, Pino Maddaloni, Roberto Cammarelle, Riccardo Magrini, Michele Frangilli, Hugo Sconochini, Marta Pagnini, Marco Aurelio Fontana, Rossano Galtarossa, Leonardo Binchi, Aglaia Pezzato, and many others. A team of commentators, joined by hosts and journalists Marco Cattaneo, Giulia Cicchinè, Guido Bagatta, Fabrizio Monari, and Zoran Filicic, shared the excitement from Casa Italia and the competition fields from Paris, along with correspondents Valentina Marchei, Rachele Sangiuliano, and Dorothea Wierer. Greeting the Italian audience, Rachele Sangiuliano and Fabrizio Monari launched their Olympic coverage with Sveglia Parigi every morning at 8:00 a.m. CET from the WBD House, set up on the terrace of the Hotel Raphael, Warner Bros. Discovery's headquarters in the French capital during those Games. Along with the presentation of the day's events, featuring announced protagonists and Italy's medal ambitions, there was time for connections with the venues already operating and special guests from Casa Italia. Dorothea Wierer from Paris was the protagonist of Parigi Doro (Paris Gold), a daily diary with behind-the-scenes insights into the events of the Olympic Games, the most exciting moments of preparation for the competitions, and the voices of the protagonists. In Family Cam with Valentina Marchei, the former figure skater followed the families and friends of the Italian athletes to experience the emotions in real time and the aftermath of the most anticipated competition of their careers. The Olympic broadcast day concluded at Casa Italia at 11:00 PM with Place d'Italie, where Marco Cattaneo recapped the Olympic day with highlights, interviews, and special content. Finally, Eurosport.it and its social media channels provided real-time updates on all the news directly from Paris 2024, including videos of the best moments, editorial insights, the medal table, and much more. All part of its 3800-hour coverage: https://nove.tv/warner-bros-discovery-ed-eurosport-presentano-i-giochi-olimpici-di-parigi-2024 Both Ecuadorian Paris 2024 TV channels offered special coverage focused on the participation of the country's athletes. RTS, in particular, established a specific schedule to ensure maximum coverage of the most important events. These time slots were potentially extended depending on the competition schedule. In addition, featured events such as the road cycling race, which featured the participation of Jhonatan Narváez, was broadcast live on Saturday, August 3 at 04:00 (Ecuador time). The 20-kilometer race walk, in which Daniel Pintado, David Hurtado, Jordy Jiménez, Glenda Morejón, Magaly Bonilla and Paula Torres will compete, was also broadcast live on Thursday, August 1: https://www.radiopichincha.com/rts-claro-sports-trasmiten-juegos-olimpicos-parara-ecuador/ (more from these nations--NZ, Italy, and Ecuador--and more will come next time...) Quote
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